Alias Expressions

[Timon Gehr]

On 04/23/2012 05:17 AM, Xinok wrote:
> I know this has probably been asked for a hundred times before, but I
> don't understand why D doesn't support this. Template alias parameters
> can accept nearly anything as an argument that standard aliases don't. I
> think standard aliases should be equally as powerful as their template
> counterpart.
>

Note that standard aliases and template aliases have an overlapping set 
of features but both support some aliasees that the other one does not. 
(So no one is strictly more powerful than the other.) I really think 
this should be fixed, but Walter has never discussed the point when this 
issue was brought up in the past.